On Thursday 26 June 2008, Timur Tabi wrote: > > The only thing a platform should ever use aliases for is if it needs > > to (for whatever purpose) find a specific device, that it cannot > > identify otherwise (via "reg", ...). And then that platform code > > should look up the device by the alias, not look up the alias by the > > device -- there is no 1-1 mapping from device to alias! > > Hmmm, I hadn't through about that. I guess this patch isn't such a great > idea after all. I rescind it.
Too bad. So now we're back to where we started with the discussion about "cell-index" vs. "index" vs. no index on I2C device nodes. :-( Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
